Highbanks Senior Prom 2018!!

August 6th, 2018
At Highbanks Care Center we host an Annual Prom for our residents! Two years ago, when talking to residents we found that many of them did not have the opportunity to attend a high school prom! When we dug deeper, we found that many of our seniors did not get this experience due to various reasons. In 1950, the high school graduation rate for the United States was 59%! That said, many of our residents had left school to pursue careers in manufacturing as the economy shifted, many of them left to serve our country in the military, and many of them left school to begin a family and raise children! To us (their children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren!) a Prom is something we enjoyed as a fond memory of high school that we often take for granted. When we realized this, it was a no-brainer that we had to do something special for these folks that sacrificed enjoying their high school Prom to begin their astonishing lives at such an early age!

In hosting this simple event, we are able to do our part at Highbanks Care Center to provide this experience for our community to become involved, bring family members together across generations, enjoy good food, experience a live DJ, and get up and dance like it’s 1950!